Top Trends in Sustainable Packaging
The packaging innovations that promise to reduce the industry’s contribution to global warming and clean up the planet.
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Advanced Recycling for the Future
Full circularity appears to be on the horizon but what can we expect from the more advanced recycling technologies?
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Making Sense of Sustainable Packaging
SPRING Founder, Robert Lilienfeld, on his mission to make sense of the complex array of sustainable packaging options promising to save the world.
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Slow Fashion Heroes Out to Save the Oceans
Turning waste into unique pieces of footwear with the help of an army of slow fashion “heroes”, the Portugal-based startup, Skizo, is giving PET bottles and fishing nets a glorious second life far from the ocean
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Applying Biomimicry in the PET Industry
Marta Matos Gil tells us about bringing the PET industry together to co-engineer solutions that put nature back in the center of systems thinking.
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Looking to Nature for Innovative Solutions
Bioplastics, biodegradable packaging and other nature-based solutions, offer enormous potential for reducing the industry’s reliance on virgin fossil fuel feedstocks. But not without its challenges.
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A Waste-Free World
Moving from a “take-make-waste” economic model to a circular world of infinite abundance, a world free of waste is closer than we think.
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Packaging Economics
A more systemic approach to investing is influencing the flow of money away from old ways of financial thinking towards new solutions that push living assets to the fore. The growing importance of “non-financial factors”, environmental, social and governance considerations, in determining the flow of funds from a rapidly expanding pool of investors and banks
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Closing the Loop
From take-make-dispose to a re-cyclical model, PET holds the key to reaching the world’s recycling goals. The world has had a logo for recycling since 1970, when student Gary Anderson won a competition to design a symbol with his easily recognisable Mobius loop. Sponsored by the Container Corporation of America, it was hoped that the
A Solutions Network
Identifying the challenges that need to be overcome in the journey towards a world free of waste One of the highlights of the seismic shift in people’s attitudes towards plastic, and sustainability in general, in the last five years has been the response from brands, entrepreneurs and activists re-thinking the plastics industry. The New Plastics Economy
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